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Sawyer nodded and started toward her, his long legs eating up the space between theaze was still firmly fixed on her, and his expression said it all Dissection or worse

She sed hard, the sound echoing in the office Clover now realized was intensely quiet Even A at Clover like she was a bunny trapped in the corner and about to die

“So I’ht?” She offered a wobbly grin, but he didn’t seeered Rock Wallabies that she would have been helping could save theood luck with the whole pissed-off-”

He stopped just out of arm’s reach, his hazel eyes seelasses as if she were a puzzle he was determined to solve “Well, that’s a new one”

“What? Gotten fired before they were hired?” She let out a strangled laugh “Oh yeah It’s happened toat a weight loss call center when I told the woman on the phone that she was perfect just the way she was and the supervisor lost his—”

“No” He shook his head “No one’s ever gotten my mom to retreat”

“I’rip on her purse strap as she scurried backward, slapping her hand behind her in an effort to hit the elevator call button “I’ll be off then Have fun picking out a much less mouthy buffer”

Finally, she ainst the button Nohen she should have turned around, faced the closed elevator doors, and pretended that no one was behind her while she waited for-ev-er for the elevator to make its way back up to the top floor But she couldn’t It wasn’t that it would be rude—God knew she’d just proved her ability to fly right past rude and sail into verboten territory It was because of him

Sawyer Carlyle ht be dressed in a suit, the cost of which would finance her adventure in Australia and about a dozen others, but that didn’t aze proood-but-I-don’t-care things

He reached her side in a few determined strides, but this ti distance Instead, he slid his hand across the s aher up from the inside out

“Amara, please clear my calendar for the next hour” Heher with him, as he strode toward his office “Gentlemen, thank you for your time, but I’m afraid the position has been filled”

Filled? Oh God, what had she done?

Chapter Two

Sawyer didn’t knohat to do next It was an unusual feeling Nor a big-picture kind of guy If one approach didn’t work, it didn’t ot there didn’t matter

He flexed his hand as he walked around his desk and sat down, needing so to do with the hand that had rested on the sain He wasn’t a stranger to beautiful wo out his office wasn’t soory—at least not in that suit